Reason why it's nerve-racking to go back to school in person

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

That wasn’t really my question. The question is, when Larlo tests positive, will the families of other kids inLarlo’s class be notified? Or on his bus? Only if they sit to him? Will they close the class down? Require the kids who sit near him to stay home for some number of days? Employers generally have developed procedures specifying what they will do. I’d like to know what MCPS is planning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

And if a student tests positive, will the teacher have to quarantine also? With less then 10 days of sick leave, the leave could potentially be gone for the year with ONE quarantine. What’s the likelihood of this happening? I would say pretty high odds. Then what happens when another student tests positive and the teacher has no leave?

Also not hard to solve: the school district grants covid leave, as other employers have done.

Actually really hard to solve. Thanks for your opinion though. They would have to shut the whole class down. The specials teachers that rotate in and out of the classroom to provide preps would have been exposed. This exposes all the other classes in the school. What do you do? Do you require the whole school to be tested? Let's say you do. You shut down after Monday, require everyone to get tested Tuesday, and then...wait seven to ten days for results while everyone does DL? What if some parents refuse to get tested or release results? What if they drop those kids off at school without providing them? What if this happens repeatedly? If the teacher is actually sick, who is doing DL with that class? If I'm bedridden with COVID, do you think I'm actually going to work all day?
Don't pretend any of this is simple.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:OP, if you want a guarantee that nobody will get covid at school, that's not possible.

Just like it's not possible to guarantee that you won't get heart disease, and it's not possible to guarantee that you won't get in a car crash the next time you drive somewhere, and it's not possible to guarantee that you won't trip and fall when you get out of bed tomorrow morning.

Those are not accurate comparisons.

OP, I'm not going to be wondering every single day if my kids were exposed, or if they brought it into our house. I'm just not.

They're absolutely accurate. The only way to guarantee that nobody will get covid at school is to not have school. The only way to guarantee that you won't get heart disease is to not be alive. The only way to guarantee that you won't get in a car crash the next time you drive is to not drive anywhere. The only way to guarantee that you won't trip and fall when you get out of bed is to not get out of bed.

Nope. You are not getting that right at all.

Which parts are wrong?

DP

There is nothing wrong with the analogy.

There is a poster on here who simply says ‘You’re wrong’ when he/she disagrees with a post. Without providing any good reasons. Because he/she has none.

Obviously unable to form a coherent argument. Likely a product of MCPS?

Why the clamor to open a school system that you think can’t educate people under normal circumstances?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Absolutely not, just until there's a vaccine.

What if the vaccine is as effective as the seasonal flu vaccine, and the percentage of the population that gets it is the same as the seasonal flu vaccine?

With seasonal flu, people who get treated vaccine have a much milder case. They don’t die from flu. So there’s a chance that if you have the COVID vaccine and get the virus anyway, you won’t die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

And if a student tests positive, will the teacher have to quarantine also? With less then 10 days of sick leave, the leave could potentially be gone for the year with ONE quarantine. What’s the likelihood of this happening? I would say pretty high odds. Then what happens when another student tests positive and the teacher has no leave?

I work in child care and was recently quarantined due to contact with a positive case. I was exposed on a Monday, person was symptomless at that point. Found out the person got a positive result on Wednesday after they stayed home ill on Tuesday. Quarantined on Thursday and Friday, tested Friday afternoon. Negative result on Saturday morning, cleared to return to work on Monday. It really wasn't that big of a deal.

[Anonymous]

PP here, and btw out of a total of 12 people exposed, 7 have tested negative so far. No positives yet.

[Anonymous]

Good question, but there won't be any in-person instruction in MCPS this year. DL only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

And if a student tests positive, will the teacher have to quarantine also? With less then 10 days of sick leave, the leave could potentially be gone for the year with ONE quarantine. What’s the likelihood of this happening? I would say pretty high odds. Then what happens when another student tests positive and the teacher has no leave?

I work in child care and was recently quarantined due to contact with a positive case. I was exposed on a Monday, person was symptomless at that point. Found out the person got a positive result on Wednesday after they stayed home ill on Tuesday. Quarantined on Thursday and Friday, tested Friday afternoon. Negative result on Saturday morning, cleared to return to work on Monday. It really wasn't that big of a deal.

Lucky you, to get results from your test in less than 24 hours. That isn't happening for most people in most places. It took us seven days to get results for my teen's recent test in Maryland (MoCo). Your example is not useful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

That wasn’t really my question. The question is, when Larlo tests positive, will the families of other kids inLarlo’s class be notified? Or on his bus? Only if they sit to him? Will they close the class down? Require the kids who sit near him to stay home for some number of days? Employers generally have developed procedures specifying what they will do. I’d like to know what MCPS is planning.

Pretty sure if they can do this with lice they can for Covid, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

And if a student tests positive, will the teacher have to quarantine also? With less then 10 days of sick leave, the leave could potentially be gone for the year with ONE quarantine. What’s the likelihood of this happening? I would say pretty high odds. Then what happens when another student tests positive and the teacher has no leave?

I work in child care and was recently quarantined due to contact with a positive case. I was exposed on a Monday, person was symptomless at that point. Found out the person got a positive result on Wednesday after they stayed home ill on Tuesday. Quarantined on Thursday and Friday, tested Friday afternoon. Negative result on Saturday morning, cleared to return to work on Monday. It really wasn't that big of a deal.

Lucky you, to get results from your test in less than 24 hours. That isn't happening for most people in most places. It took us seven days to get results for my teen's recent test in Maryland (MoCo). Your example is not useful.

Do your homework first. Just got my test results back in less than 2 days

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Absolutely not, just until there's a vaccine.

What if the vaccine is as effective as the seasonal flu vaccine, and the percentage of the population that gets it is the same as the seasonal flu vaccine?

With seasonal flu, people who get treated vaccine have a much milder case. They don’t die from flu. So there’s a chance that if you have the COVID vaccine and get the virus anyway, you won’t die.

We don't know that, though. Just like all of the other things we don't know about covid, which people are using to justify the Schools Closed Until There's A Vaccine line.

And sometimes people get the seasonal flu vaccine and die anyway. It reduces your chance of getting seriously ill from flu, it doesn't eliminate it. I get the flu vaccine every year because I'd rather have reduced chances than non-reduced chances, but that doesn't provide the certainty of zero risk that some people are demanding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

And if a student tests positive, will the teacher have to quarantine also? With less then 10 days of sick leave, the leave could potentially be gone for the year with ONE quarantine. What’s the likelihood of this happening? I would say pretty high odds. Then what happens when another student tests positive and the teacher has no leave?

I work in child care and was recently quarantined due to contact with a positive case. I was exposed on a Monday, person was symptomless at that point. Found out the person got a positive result on Wednesday after they stayed home ill on Tuesday. Quarantined on Thursday and Friday, tested Friday afternoon. Negative result on Saturday morning, cleared to return to work on Monday. It really wasn't that big of a deal.

Lucky you, to get results from your test in less than 24 hours. That isn't happening for most people in most places. It took us seven days to get results for my teen's recent test in Maryland (MoCo). Your example is not useful.

Do your homework first. Just got my test results back in less than 2 days

Have you read the thread on the health forum about waiting for test results from CVS? People are sharing 10, 14, 15 days later and they still don’t have their results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

Where has MCPS promised to have a nurse in every school during all school hours this year? That certainly hasn't been the case in the past, and I've seen nothing about ensuring there's a qualified health professional on site whenever kids are in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

Where has MCPS promised to have a nurse in every school during all school hours this year? That certainly hasn't been the case in the past, and I've seen nothing about ensuring there's a qualified health professional on site whenever kids are in school.

It doesn't have to be an RN who contacts the family, for pete's sake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

Where has MCPS promised to have a nurse in every school during all school hours this year? That certainly hasn't been the case in the past, and I've seen nothing about ensuring there's a qualified health professional on site whenever kids are in school.

It doesn't have to be an RN who contacts the family, for pete's sake.

So who is responsible for medically evaluating which kid needs to be sent home? The issue isn't the calling, it's the deciding.